The Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency (AACMHA) is seeking a provider or providers for Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties to deliver an In-Home Intervention Program for Children for children and adolescents at risk for admission to institutional care (hospitals and/or Residential Treatment Centers) covered by Medical Assistance and determined to be “high users” of the Public Behavioral Health System (PBHS).
The youth targeted for this voluntary in-home intervention program are eligible for and/or are receiving services through the PBHS. This program is based on a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) platform, with additional grant funded activities that are outside the services covered under PRP.
Goals and Brief Service Description
The goals of the In-Home Intervention Program for Children (IHIP-C) are to:
1. Provide effective, family focused, community-based in-home intervention services for children and adolescents with behavioral health issues at risk of out-of-home placement;
2. Deliver services that are individualized, culturally and linguistically competent, family focused, coordinated and built on strengths and resilience; and
3. Either reduce admissions to more costly and more restrictive institutional placements or assist the family with reunification following an out-of-home placement.
4. Services should follow the IHIP-C Model outlined in the IHIP-C Manual (to be supplied by Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency).
The IHIP-C Program intervenes immediately when there is an emergent or crisis/emergency situation, provides brief and intensive interventions, strengthens family functioning, teaches coping skills, links the youth and family to behavioral health and other community support services, and averts visits to costly local emergency departments and/or admissions to a hospital or residential treatment center.
Offeror's Eligibility
To be eligible for this contract, all the following criteria must be met:
1. Be an approved Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) under COMAR 10.63
2. Assurance must be made to become and maintain approval as a 1915(i) Intensive In Home Services/ Promising Practice IIHS provider (non-EBP), under COMAR 10.08.89. Provider must also actively accept referrals and serve families for individuals that qualify for the 1915i IIHIS. These referrals come through care coordination organizations. Billing for those individuals is through Medicaid and not through the grant. Provider must adhere to any additional COMAR regulations when serving those youth.
3. Able to serve a team of 12 youth. For each team of 12 youth, the Offeror will have at a minimum a 0.5 FTE Masters Level licensed mental health clinician and 2.0 FTE Bachelor’s level staff with greater than two years of experience.
4. Each IHIP-C team shall have qualified staff on-call and available for home visits 24 hours a day, seven days a week to handle crisis/emergency situations and to accommodate the schedules of program participants.
Start-up Costs: Although there is no funding for start-up costs, start-up costs are anticipated, and they should be submitted on a separate budget and supported with supplement schedules of start-up costs. All costs should be detailed on a separate MDH 432 packet.
Steps to completion
Register for Pre-Bid Conference
RSVP to Chelsea Bednarczyk at
cbednarczyk@aamentalhealth.org
by March 3, 2026
Pre-Bid Conference
Via Zoom Meeting (please register for invitation information)
2 PM EST March 18, 2026
Deadline for Questions by 4 PM EST on March 25, 2026
Answers will be posted to AACMHA website within 5 days
Proposal Submission Deadline by 3 PM EST on April 17, 2026
Deliver to: Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
Attn: IHIP-C RFP
1 Truman Pkwy, Ste. 101
Annapolis, MD 21401
Review Committee Packet Pick Up/Distribution
April 20, 2026
Review Committee
TBD via Zoom Meeting
Week of May 4, 2026
Contract Committee
TBD via Zoom Meeting
Week of May 11, 2026
Core Service Agency’s Board of Directors’ Approval
May 26, 2026
Contract Award Announcement
Email/call to successful bidder and notice to be placed on the AACMHA website
May 27, 2026
Work to begin on or about
July 1, 2026